Diploma in Business Administration ( Co-op)

at Red River College Polytechnic - The Roblin Centre Canada

This program is designed to provide graduates with the knowledge and skills set required to analyze, design, and manage projects and businesses in the area of information technology. The Business Technology Management Diploma builds upon a combined set of information technology and business courses. Students in this program will be exposed to a variety of case studies and practical skills to be effective in advising or managing teams in the IT field. Students will apply their skills in an industry environment through the department's co-op program.

Co-op- Optional

• In your second year of the program, you must complete an experiential semester by undertaking either a co-operative education term or an industry project term.
• Co-operative education integrates related on-the-job training with classroom theory by alternating terms of academic study and paid employment.  Provided you have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0, you have the option of taking a four-month paid Co-op work experience term. The College makes every effort to secure work placements for all Co-op students. However, the College does not unconditionally guarantee a work placement to students who enroll in programs incorporating Co-op.
• A Co-op tuition fee is charged to all students registered in a Co-op work term. Co-op fees cover work placement development, pre-employment instruction, and employment-related monitoring. You receive support from the coordinator in the work placement process and have the opportunity to apply for available Co-op work placements. Employment-related monitoring includes support and evaluation by the coordinator during and after the placement.

Creative Communications prepares you for a career in advertising and marketing communications, broadcasting, media production, journalism, public relations and communications management. The program gives you the skills and knowledge necessary to obtain an entry-level position in this wide range of communication-based jobs. 

In addition to the areas listed above, students may also take courses in digital media design for print and web, visual storytelling, creative writing, business communications, social media strategy, data analytics and brand marketing.

During your course work, you will work in a media production studio, a Foley/sound recording studio, sound editing suites as well as other dedicated lab spaces.

Students in the Communication Design program will develop investigative and exploratory work that challenges ideas about what is traditionally accepted as output from a graphic design school. Through a series of thoughtful projects that casually blur disciplinary boundaries, the Communication Design program continually breaks new ground in building future generations of design thinkers at Red River College.

IT Operations professionals deliver and support the essential IT services that keep businesses running. They are service-minded professionals who put customer experience and the needs of the business first.   IT Operations teams define how an organization manages software, hardware, and cloud services. They provide other IT support such as network administration, storage, information security, device management, cloud management and help/service desks.  

The world of IT Operations is growing as modern organizations rely on technology to be the backbone which supports their activities. Students will develop their skills in IT Operations, enabling them to manage processes and services for clients inside and outside of the organization. 

The Network and Services Technician program is for individuals who wish to enter the Information Technology profession. No Information Technology pre-knowledge is required.

The Network and Services Technician program is an 8-month program that provides the student with a general knowledge base that can be applied in both the SOHO networking environment as well as targeting a junior position in a larger corporate IT department. The focus is to provide the graduate with a broad based basic competency in a number of key areas.

The successful graduate has a basic to intermediate understanding of a number of IT areas.

• These include:
  • Client Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux
  • Server Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux
  • Network Equipment Infrastructure: Cisco CCNA training
  • Network Cable Plant Infrastructure: BICSI inspired instruction
  • Wireless Communication: Cisco AP's
  • VoIP: Cisco Communication Manager Express
  • PC Hardware Support: A+ Hardware and Software

Digital Media Design is a one-year certificate program that teaches graphic design, web and mobile design and development, UI/UX, video and motion graphics, illustration, and 3D artistry (sculpting, modelling, lighting, texturing, and animation). The creative economy is booming and technology is playing an increasingly larger role in everything we do from games to movies, apps to animation. In DMD, you will learn the foundational theory, techniques, and technology you need to succeed in this industry.

Graduates from the DMD certificate program can enter into the one-year Digital Media Design — Video and Motion Graphics diploma program or the Digital Media Design — Interaction Design and Development program.

• This program provides you with the necessary public service and technical skills to be a productive employee in the library and related fields. Specifically, the program provides you with the training to be employed as a library technician.
• You will learn the fundamentals of both manual and automated systems for acquiring, organizing, and disseminating information in a variety of formats.
• Oral presentations, written assignments, and group projects are part of the program.
• Students complete three two-week field placements in a variety of libraries over the course of the program.

This program develops the knowledge and personal selling skills you require for building and maintaining long-term partnerships and for achieving sales success. 

The program promotes a needs-satisfaction selling philosophy supported by strategic selling techniques. It focuses on the selling function of marketing and its relation to an overall marketing strategy.

Selling is well-suited to learning through application, with the use of oral presentations and salesperson and customer role plays. Throughout the program you will have many opportunities to practice your presentation and selling skills and to review your performance.

You will study the various functions of marketing. You will strengthen your interpersonal skills and develop the persuasive communication strategies you need for success in sales.

The Career and Personal Development courses will expose you to the real world of business and help you identify the areas in the field of personal selling that you are interested in. In addition to exploring your career interests, you participate in a number of workshops to develop the skills that will help you both in the program and in your professional career. You will spend one full week with a sponsoring firm, where you will research the firm's sales and marketing strategies.

After you apply, you will be invited to attend an information session to inform you about your career choice and prepare you for the demands of the program. Although attendance is not mandatory, you are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity.

Graphic Design provides up-to-date artistic training in the technology, techniques, and philosophy of graphic design, which plays a vital role in the process of presenting ideas, information, products, and services in an expanding global economy.

This is a balanced program of art instruction and academic courses designed to develop the technical skills and knowledge essential to professional competence, and to encourage creativity, imagination, and a sense of aesthetic discrimination. Practical work experience is provided through field placement in the graphic communications industry.

Assignments in design, illustration, and computer graphics may require a considerable amount of time outside of regular class hours.

Business Administration provides the student with a broad business foundation during the first year of studies. During the second year of the program, the student will declare a major that focuses their studies in a particular area, either Accounting, Administration, Financial Services, Marketing or Human Resource Management.

Some courses focus on theoretical foundations, others will emphasize application of knowledge. Group projects are integral to many courses offered in this program.